We work in Computational Molecular Evolution. The themes we address are quite diverse:

phylogenetics

viral evolution

microbiology / ecotoxicology

seabird ecology

All have in common the development of algorithms taking inspiration from or based on:

likelihood

Bayesian modeling and computing

machine learning (supervised or not, going deep!)

graph theory (networks)

time series analysis

anything that works

Research facilities

A small computer cluster was purchased from Sun Microsystems (Oracle now) back in 2007 thanks to a CFI grant with one X2200, three X4100 and two X4600 servers; iMacs and PC xeon boxes (for legacy) are available as workstations.

Most of our computing is now moving to Ontario's Centre for Advanced Computing (formerly HPCVL), a multi-university consortium under the umbrella of Compute Ontario and Compute Canada:

Source code and data sets that we produce are available on Git:

Our funding comes essentially from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through its Discovery Grant program: